Family Friendship and Race and Knowing Your Place
On racism and friendship, and when and where to draw lines.
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Family The Third Generation
On the author's history with her parents, and how difficult it can be to understand the true roots of family dysfunction.
Dads What to Do with a Dad Once You’ve Got One
Diana Hurlburt on her father's suicide, and trying to make sense of what to do with the stepfather who showed up in his place.
Family Talking About Estrangement
Oh, that terrible "adult children and estrangement" article. Don't write articles like this!
Family Weirdness as a Love Language: Why I Sent Creepy Christmas Elves to My Sister
In which the author finds the perfect(ly hideous) Christmas gift for her sister.
Family Father Christmas
The author reflects on her father and one of his erstwhile holiday traditions.
Family Half-Breed: A Racial Biography in Five Parts
"This day with these people you’re Native, while this day with these people you’re white": Alicia Elliott reflects on her mixed heritage and history.
Family My Other Parent
What it's like to be in reunion, and a conversation I'd been avoiding with my birth father.
Family Bitter Greens
Mindy Hung remembers her grandparents' illicit garden.
Family Disarmed
A Southern woman reconsiders race and violence in the wake of her brother's death.
Family Loosen the Reins
Alizah Salario on grieving a parent in the midst of other unresolved emotions.
Family Highlights from the Apocalypse
The author tries to comprehend her brother's death in Iraq—and the world that led him to war—by sorting through prophecy and apocalypse narratives.
Family The Egg, the Nest, and the Wild
Casey Hannan reflects on childhood, self-realization, and coming out to his parents.
Family The Worst Soccer Mom
Sarah M. Wells on family, sports, and what it takes to keep it all together.
Family Porkistan
Syed Ali Haider reflects on family, faith, and identity.
